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UPDATE: Garden City's Commerce Court reopens after bomb threat

Garden City police reopened Commerce Court at 2:45 p.m. Monday after employees at Vantage Freight Systems received a suspicious package. Employees of the freight company also went back to work Monday afternoon.

Vantage employees received a bubble-wrapped package Monday with a note attached. Inside the package was a bomb, according to the note.

Garden City police were called to the scene at about 1 p.m., evacuated the building, closed off Commerce Court and called in the Savannah-Chatham County Police Department's bomb squad.

Capt. Al Jelinski, who heads up Garden City's criminal investigation division, said the package contained a "volatile substance," and was removed from the scene.

The case has been turned over to the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service for investigation.